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There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world,
and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
- Winston Churchill
The first quality that is needed is audacity.
- Winston Churchill
The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
It is a mistake to look too far ahead.
Only one link in the chain of destiny
can be handled at a time.
- Winston Churchill
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Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
- Winston Churchill
We are masters of the unsaid words,
but slaves of those we let slip out.
- Winston Churchill
History is written by the victors.
- Winston Churchill
We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
- Winston Churchill
When you have to kill a man,
it costs nothing to be polite.
- Winston Churchill
It is a fine thing to be honest,
but it is also very important to be right.
- Winston Churchill
One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.
- Winston Churchill
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence -
is the key to unlocking our potential.
- Winston Churchill
Play the game for more than you can afford to lose...
only then will you learn the game.
- Winston Churchill
This is no time for ease and comfort.
It is time to dare and endure.
- Winston Churchill
There are two things that are more difficult
than making an after-dinner speech:
climbing a wall which is leaning toward you
and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.
- Winston Churchill
Never give in - never, never, never, never.
- Winston Churchill
The price of greatness is responsibility.
- Winston Churchill
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill
Short words are best
and the old words, when short, are best of all.
- Winston Churchill
To improve is to change;
to be perfect is to change often.
- Winston Churchill
We have always found the Irish a bit odd.
They refuse to be English.
- Winston Churchill
We make a living by what we get.
We make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill
A joke is a very serious thing.
- Winston Churchill
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself
the means of inspiration and survival.
- Winston Churchill
Never hold discussions with the monkey
when the organ grinder is in the room.
- Winston Churchill
Never, never, never give up.
- Winston Churchill
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
- Winston Churchill
I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.
- Winston Churchill
I am prepared to meet my Maker.
Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal
of meeting me is another matter.
- Winston Churchill
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
- Winston Churchill
I like a man who grins when he fights.
- Winston Churchill
Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
You have only to persevere to save yourselves.
- Winston Churchill
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
It is always wise to look ahead,
but difficult to look further than you can see.
- Winston Churchill
I am fond of pigs.
Dogs look up to us.
Cats look down on us.
Pigs treat us as equals.
- Winston Churchill
If we open a quarrel between past and present,
we shall find that we have lost the future.
- Winston Churchill
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Ending a sentence with a preposition is
something up with which I will not put.
- Winston Churchill
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
Success is not final, failure is not fatal.
It is the courage to continue that counts.
- Winston Churchill
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak;
courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
- Winston Churchill
If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Winston Churchill
I am an optimist.
It does not seem too much use being anything else.
- Winston Churchill
Success consists of going from failure to failure
without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
(also quoted as: "Courage is going from failure to failure
without losing enthusiasm."
These are not dark days -
these are great days.
- Winston Churchill
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;
an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
- Winston Churchill
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
The truth is incontrovertible,
malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it,
but in the end; there it is.
- Winston Churchill
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
- Winston Churchill
The farther backward you can look,
the farther forward you can see.
- Winston Churchill
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
- Winston Churchill
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right,
than to be responsible and wrong.
- Winston Churchill
All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
- Winston Churchill
Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
- Winston Churchill
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered
with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
- Winston Churchill
I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colors.
I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and
am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
- Winston Churchill
Personally, I'm always ready to learn,
although I do not always like being taught.
- Winston Churchill
Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
- Winston Churchill
When I look back on all these worries,
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed
that he had had a lot of trouble in his life,
most of which had never happened.
- Winston Churchill
I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.
- Winston Churchill
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better
by all parties to leave the past to history,
especially as I propose to write that history myself.
- Winston Churchill
In those days he was wiser than he is now;
he used to frequently take my advice.
- Winston Churchill
We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
I am easily satisfied with the very best.
- Winston Churchill
To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
- Winston Churchill
If you have ten thousand regulations
you destroy all respect for the law.
- Winston Churchill
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
- Winston Churchill
Eating words has never given me indigestion.
- Winston Churchill
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
- Winston Churchill
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